Alternative Medicine
440: Dr. Harriette Mogul Discusses Syndrome W And Women’s Middle Age Weight Gain
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Dr. Harriette Mogul, author of Syndrome W: A Woman’s Guide to Reversing Midlife Weight Gain is our guest today on The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 440
– Join us on The 4th Annual Low-Carb Cruise (sign up no later than Saturday, February 12, 2011!)
– FAQ about the Low-Carb Cruise
– Video preview of the May 2011 Low-Carb Cruise
– Harriette R. Mogul, MD bio
– Syndrome W: A Woman’s Guide to Reversing Midlife Weight Gain
– Official Syndrome W web site
– The Mogul Protocol Food Pyramid
Bless your heart Jimmy! I could not have kept my cool during this interview.
Metformin for prevention? Oh and my clients must have not heard of the no surprises part of taking metformin.
Why not cut the fruit? Who needs a “treat” of you have to be on a drug?
Calories….really????? Good heavens. I so wanted her book to be something more usable. My hat goes off to you Jimmy…you da man!
THANKS Gina! She was close. 🙂
Wow … what a muddled message. Quite a contrast between the clarity of Taubes and this.
While I have doubts that her approach is very effective in any rigorous way, I’m sure she is the type of doc who patients love and believe in.
Syndrome W seems to be an effort at market segmentation more that an effective paradigm for getting to the core of a person’s problem. It’s not clear to me that weight issues are all that different between men and women — with the exception of Taubes’ point that men tend more towards diabetes and women more towards obesity.
People are too quick to say “I can’t do it” and I get so tired of hearing that as the excuse that they can’t go low carb. It’s an addiction they aren’t facing, and their doctors are enabling them by handing out pills. If you need Metformin, it’s one thing, but I’m fairly certain a good percentage of patients simply don’t want to give up their carbs. (Well, who among us did? But if you’ve got to, you’ve got to.) From the doctor’s point of view, if they don’t prescribe, probably the patient walks out the door. It’s not just this interview, either, the one with Justin Smith that I also listened to this morning is the same thing. People don’t want to eat healthy, they want the pill so they can continue to eat whatever they feel like. Hand them a statin and they are happy because they are absolved of responsibility again.
People just need to GROW UP! Good rant, huh? 🙂
Jennifer
I thought Justin Smith was against unnecessary meds? Wasn’t that his whole point, and the meaning of his “$29 billion reasons”?
I couldn’t listen to all of this. Sorry Jimmy – you’re a saint!
Give me Briffa’s Waist Disposal any day instead of Syndrome W.
Jimmy, Thank you so much for pressing Dr. Mogul on the issues of fats, fruits, carbs, etc! When I read your intro to this podcast I was really excited by it, but as I listened to Dr. Mogul I got more and more depressed. Her “diet” sounds more like a Weight Watchers diet, which doesn’t seem like the best approach to me for insulin resistance.
I really wonder about her patients. Are they really *all* so totally averse to sticking to a diet that will really help their issues?
I have no problems with the metformin issue. The more and more I read about metformin the more of a wonder drug it reads to me, including things she mentioned like anti-cancer and anti-cardiovascular properties. Though I take metformin myself, and stick to a low carb diet, and neither has helped me break a 16-month stall! (with 100 pounds to lose). I’m one of the lucky ones who has never had a single instance of gastric problems with metformin. 🙂 But neither it nor a low carb diet is helping me lose any weight – though at least I feel good.
Volumetrics? REALLY?
I know, right? Love how she stumbled over my assertion that fat is satiating. Made her think.
Yeah, I noticed that, too!
Sadly the typical sat fat bashing. She didn’t justify why she singled out saturated for special avoidance.
Calories in, calories out? Low fat? Medications? If I had been there in person I would have poked her in the eye!!! Absolutely ludicrous and archaic thinking. I couldn’t listen to all of it either.